No complicated ecu...no electronic...no nothing.just u,bike n asphalt...pure skills of rider n pure horsepower.i love this era...most important thing no drama...no monopoly.everybody can be a champion...
Bought a 81 Kawasaki GPZ 1100 brand new off the show room floor. Bought the optional quarter fairing that was stock on the 82 models. Put a Kerker 4-1 race header on her and after breaking in the new bike I was road racing her. Some of the best days of my life.Raced my GPZ for 3 years then bought and raced my 84 Yamaha RZ 500. I was 18 years old in 81 and Eddie Lawson was one of my heroes along with Kenny Roberts. Never won but had a blast trying.Fond memories! Thanks for this video.
Good work Brian, I was the same but a decade later and as an Australian, diifferent bikes but still a breed apart. The best days of our lives, traveling around, playing around. It was the brand new Katana that inspired me, i was 11
Yup, started (racing) on a RD400 in 87, then a old GPZ550(81), then a RZ350. I still have the RZ350, converted it back to semi-street, it's fun to embarrass pups on newer teck. I love this Era, like most people these days, and have started restoring these oldies as a side business. Big money, and interest in these oldies in Japan and Europa. My personnel oldie (4 Stroke) is a 81 GPZ1100 converted to a neo ELR KZ1000R S1 Replica. Also a frame off 81 GPZ550 restoration, a 77 KZ660 and the all mighty 72 H2 Triple Mach IV 750 WidowMaker. Rock On!
I was there! 79, 80, 81, and 82. Loved these bikes so much, I built my track bike around a Bandit 1200 and used a replica Cooley fairing and cut down seat.
Amazing hearing Freddie Spencer and Eddie Lawson saying their ambition was to win the World 500 cc Championship. Freddie won twice and Eddie four times. Legends both.
Great video...i fell Young again...🥴...i'm proud owner of Gpz 550 Unitrak 1983 for olmoust 30 years...more than 155.000 km on odo...Best greetings from Slovenia, Milan
1979 I was 17 passed my test on a old cb 250 Honda went straight to the kawasaki centre and bought a z900, then I got a gpz 1100 b2 which I tried to make into a Eddie lawson rep. Fantastic days wish I was back there again.
Wow, just WOW!!! This video is a perfect example of how important or even a gift RUclips is to the world. Providing us all portals into the past. Thank YOU for posting & sharing this video! Will forever regret selling my 2 GS1000S Suzuki's 25 years ago...
The more videos I find of Wes Cooley's verbal presentations, the more I appreciate his congeniality & informative speech. He has a great way of making things understandable to the non-motorcyclist segments of the viewership, and could very well deserve to be called one of motorcycling's great ambassadors to the public. I just can't help but to admire the guy.
@@jryer1 Hi I'm glad to meet you^^.Welcome to goodies of Japanese motorycles racevideo^^.I ride a YAMAHA.Some upon times,I rode Harley Davidson motorcycles.Evolution motor,Twincam88,XR1200. I rode a Ducati and BMW too.
Modded street bikes came a bit later to the UK. The Superstock class of the mid 80's was the UK version of this. Great memories of seeing Suzuki Katanas and then GPZ 900's dominating the big production class in the early-mid eighties.
Those bikes back then were always on the verge of being uncontrollable. The era of real melding of man and machine. There will always be something special about that time.
Love the “on bike” commentary from the bikers, hilarious to think that back in the day we would have had no idea it was recorded after and added over the top with them pretending it wasn’t. Lol. Such a classic video. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed listening to Lawson and Spencer talk about their 500cc dreams from this perspective in time. Now world champion legends of motogp, both seem so green here.
Those guys were heroes to ride the scary beast bikes of that time at their limits when engines were too fast for the chassis and the brakes but they were good enough to do it. The rest of us occasionally probed the limits on the roads and promptly backed right off when things got shaky. Respect.
Dave Aldana, a very young Freddie Spencer, Wes Cooley, and Eddie Lawson. I watched all these guys back in the day. Mainly at Sears Point Raceway and Laguna Seca. The riders were very accessible back then.
I used to have this on a VHS tape back in the 80's, watched it until the tracking adjustment was at its stop, and then kept on watching it! Back then, any type of moto video was hard to come by. I've been a fan and participant of all motorcycle racing since the 1970's, especially motocross and roadracing. This is one of my all time favorites. Haven't seen this in 20 years or more and still, I know all of the dialogue.
thanks Starr been there so many times & this is just plain FANTASTIC to see LS way back when little Freddie at 18 the bikes what can one say & carburetors to boot!
The contrast between superbike then and now is stark but fascinating. I race 600cc supersports and I don't know if I could ever get up to pace on one of these, even with modern tires. The advances in suspension, tire, and frame technology have made it... I hesitate to say "easier" to ride fast, but definitely less frightening when searching for the limits. The confidence modern bikes offer will spoil you. I would really like to build a bike for AHRMA one day and experience a bit of what this was like.
I started on a 600cc bike. One of the EFI ones. Got rid of it and now have a 79 GS1000 and a 89 FJ1200. Honestly, I feel like the bigger bikes have a lot more balls, even though they are roughly in the same range for horse power.
The older motor have a less square bore vs stroke so you feel the torque as grunt... makes its power more in the mid range as opposed to needing to be revved like an over square design.
I was there in 82, and each year for the next ten. And Sears Point, then Daytona most years from 83 until 89. Nothing against today's racers, as I can't hold a candle to any of them. But these were the glory days, both in the AMA classes and the GP circuit.
My first bike was a 72 CB350. I wish I still had that bike. Modded several times, laid down shocks, exhaust, a 3" wide rear Aluminum rim running a 140/90 18, homemade rear sets, flipped the shifter around for GP shift. Knee was on the ground in every corner (wish I could do that now on my superduke!). It finally blew up (for the last time) at Riverside raceway during the last event they had at the track.
What motorcycle racing careers are about to bloom. It takes me back to my short lived novice rr career on the east coast here at a younger age. An unfortunate street accident sidelined everything. The competition back then in it's infancy stage. Freddie Spencer, Wes Cooley, David Emde, Eddie Lawson, David Aldana, and John Benntencourt from Yoshimura East wow. The good old daze.
Great video. It’s amazing to see how riding style has evolved over the years. These guys ride ‘twisted’ when they hang off compared to today’s elbow down action!
What a great vintage race video, thank you for posting... @Z1100Rtaka It was Fast Freddie Spencer, after watching him in Super Bike races, that made me buy my new then 1982 Honda CB 900 F/c. After installing second stage cams, Kerker 4 into 1 and Mikuni smooth-bore carbs on it, mine was sounding just like his....LOL! Cheers!
ualdrivr+ I bought a 1980 silver 750F because the 900F was European only. 4 months later they released the 900F to the U.S. market. Damn! Had to have it. The 900F was the best handling street bike I ever owned. Over the next 25 years, I owned 3 more silver 750S and 2 more silver 900s. Mine were all stock except for superbike handlebars on the 750s. The Suzuki 1000 and the Kawasaki 1000 were faster but the Hondas were much better handling. I miss those days!
I bought a Yamaha RD400 Daytona Special new in 1979 and was hooked on the two strokes. But damn the new (back then) Hondas were beautiful machines. Didn't they make an CB1100F as well? Ahh, The good old days. Still one of the best looking bikes around.
Calvin Edmonson+ I never got an RD 400 but rode my friends many times. Best 2 stroke street bike ever. Great torque compared to my RD350. He could wheelie that 400 easily for a half mile or more, but then again he could wheelie anything. The first day I had my new 900F I let him ride it and he rode it for 15 feet and pulled it into a wheelie and wheelied it out of sight turning the dogleg corner like it was nothing. At first I wanted to kill him, but then I just had to admire his skill. He later piloted F-14s in the Air Force.
Some guy sauntered up to me at the infield fence at Daytona in 1983 (I think). I mentioned how I admired the riders but thought they were nuts. He laughed and asked me if I thought he was nuts. I said, "oh, so you're a rider?' "Why aren't you out there". He lowers his T-shirt and shows me a fresh shoulder scar. We josh around and later on he tells me he is David Emde. I remembered his Dad, Don, who won the Daytona 200 about 13 years earlier. David was not racing because of his injury and was just taking in the scene. Just a regular guy.
Big difference from today's track. Very cool to see how it was even after seeing so many changes in recent years to accomodate the international series and Indy cars. The track in the video cuts out the whole current infield, coming out of turn 2 straight across to turn 5. Look how the whole track has no fences. Now the whole track has catch fence around it. Look how there is no fence along the front straight when they show the straight. You can see how you used to be able to stand right next to the track on drivers left as they come up the hill pulling wheelies to the corkscrew. Now it is all catch fence. The fence where the corner marshalls stand at the corkscrew is probably the same fence today. Funny how they have to breathe the throttle so much into turn 1. Spencer, Lawson so young.
It was probably cutting edge at the time but I like how these motorcycles look simple and raw by today standard, especially from a racing perspective. There are no fairing hiding the engine, it's all about mechanical grip and brute force. I wouldn't be able to ride any of these and I know suspensions, chassis and tires have gone a long way since then but I'm not into fully faired sports bike. I'm glad manufacturers acknowledged that and that "naked bikes" are so popular nowadays but there are not many racing series that include these and that's a shame.
Had one of those street GS1000E. Minor tuning took the power to 110hp. Back then Vegas roads were fair game all the time. Learned how to paint lines like Freddie, would leave them in Red Rock Canyon, and The Valley of Fire.
I’ve owned a few of those same bikes back in the day. Steel frames steel tanks and and EASY 1/4 burnout from a redlight without using the front break or a turbo. Lol. Tires was slim and hard. Bikes Heavy as hell. Dangerous to ride. But something I couldn’t live without. Couldn’t buy many hot rod parts like you can today. Ignition advance back then was no more then drilling out the holes in the timing plate enough to turn it a bit one way or another. Shaving weight wasn’t just buying carbon fiber wheels. It was removing the center stand and chain guard. lol. Where I lived and raced the Only place you could get good race fuel was to know someone at the small local airport. If you was fast back then it was because you worked for it. Not because you bought a few bolt on parts. I miss the Good old days.
Catch's the times. Same year as Easy Rider...I first went to Laguna Seca in 1967. A neighbor raced a Porsche Speedster and we would drive it from Los Altos to Laguna over highway 17....saw some Can Am races.
that corkscrew is insane, was riding pillion on the big Z in 4th absolutely wide open and hunkered down and that noise just before going in to 5th, ear splitting scream
Awesome video.. I felt instantly connected to the riders. Behaves like a person from the neighbourhood... Compared to moral and ethical behaviour today, which makes the distance between the racing world, and us normal people, (their wallet in essence.) ,feel so far away. Like its royalties or something.. This reminds of, when racing was family entertainment, perhaps mostly for the boys, but still. I grew up watching DTM, F1 and Superbike, making popcorn and all, with my dad and brother
Man, when I started watching, I guessed this was made about when I was in high school. I was right, 1979. I knew all these guys only from reading about them in my Cycle magazine subscription. I still have all those magazines! I never would have been able to see this if not for RUclips. It’s amazing how he describes the track as he rides the bike at those speeds with a 16mm camera on the tank, and listen to those snarly engines!
The camera mounted to the back was the size of a small human. Maybe they should have put hobbit sized cameramen facing backwards. How technology has changed. Gopros ect. These guys truly were brave, the technology back then was intimidating back then compared to today. They may have been cutting edge at the time but even with "slicks" rubber compound has changes so much since then. I think these guys had more balls than the Moto GP era of 500cc two strokes, because the tech on the 500's was way advanced from this 70's era. Great video, very insightful. Anybody racing motorbikes deserves respect as a sportsman. No roll cages, high sides, lowsides drifting into and out of corners. Two wheels 🤙
I went to Suzuki Roadrace school, '93 David Aldana was the instructor. So I got to rock with him for a day on a racetrack. Everybody was on the track including him and I got the bright idea to F&(% with him. I was gonna pass him.. It was a tight section of the track, right to left. He left a little door open to the left and I tried to slip in there. He closed it so fast I almost lost my nose. If you're gonna mess with a master, better know what your doing.
Rossi was born that year! 🙂 21 years later he won his first GP500 victory at Donington Park/British GP. And now he is the old man on the grid, with the legend-status. 😊 Time flies... 🙄
The good old days LOL!!!...I spent so much money trying to get my Z1 and GS 1000S...to handle its a joke ...NOW I ride a SUPERMOTO that handles, can jump speed bumps at 80mph has brembos and goes like a rocket..to be 63 years young and still thrashing around the world >>>>YAHOO!!!
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No complicated ecu...no electronic...no nothing.just u,bike n asphalt...pure skills of rider n pure horsepower.i love this era...most important thing no drama...no monopoly.everybody can be a champion...
Bought a 81 Kawasaki GPZ 1100 brand new off the show room floor.
Bought the optional quarter fairing that was stock on the 82 models.
Put a Kerker 4-1 race header on her and after breaking in the new bike I was road racing her.
Some of the best days of my life.Raced my GPZ for 3 years then bought and raced my 84 Yamaha RZ 500.
I was 18 years old in 81 and Eddie Lawson was one of my heroes along with Kenny Roberts. Never won but had a blast trying.Fond memories!
Thanks for this video.
Good work Brian, I was the same but a decade later and as an Australian, diifferent bikes but still a breed apart.
The best days of our lives, traveling around, playing around.
It was the brand new Katana that inspired me, i was 11
Good on ya mate. 🙂You forgot to mention that 'Heros' like King Kenny were good men also, worth looking up to!
Yup, started (racing) on a RD400 in 87, then a old GPZ550(81), then a RZ350. I still have the RZ350, converted it back to semi-street, it's fun to embarrass pups on newer teck. I love this Era, like most people these days, and have started restoring these oldies as a side business. Big money, and interest in these oldies in Japan and Europa. My personnel oldie (4 Stroke) is a 81 GPZ1100 converted to a neo ELR KZ1000R S1 Replica. Also a frame off 81 GPZ550 restoration, a 77 KZ660 and the all mighty 72 H2 Triple Mach IV 750 WidowMaker. Rock On!
I was there! 79, 80, 81, and 82. Loved these bikes so much, I built my track bike around a Bandit 1200 and used a replica Cooley fairing and cut down seat.
This is the best thing on the Internet ever.
Amazing hearing Freddie Spencer and Eddie Lawson saying their ambition was to win the World 500 cc Championship. Freddie won twice and Eddie four times. Legends both.
Definitely I watched it then and Now Just AMAZING😁GOODTIMES😁
Freddie spencer was a 3 time world champion , twice in 500 cc and once in the 250's , the only rider to win both in the same year in the modern era !
Freddie won three but 2 500cc one 250
I saw Freddie win in Jarama 1985
👍 🍻
Great video...i fell Young again...🥴...i'm proud owner of Gpz 550 Unitrak 1983 for olmoust 30 years...more than 155.000 km on odo...Best greetings from Slovenia, Milan
Every time I ride my bike, I go back to this feeling.
I won't be young forever, but I feel young.
Thanks for your comment.
鉄フレーム２本サス、空冷キャブそれだけで凄い。
ローソンカラーのE.ローソン、架空の存在に近かったけどこんな世界、時代の人だったのね。音が超かっこいい熱狂させるパワーを感じる
なんという貴重な映像(TT)ﾉ感動をありがとうございました。GS.Z.CBF。40年経ってもまったく色褪せないわ
1979 I was 17 passed my test on a old cb 250 Honda went straight to the kawasaki centre and bought a z900, then I got a gpz 1100 b2 which I tried to make into a Eddie lawson rep. Fantastic days wish I was back there again.
Wow, just WOW!!! This video is a perfect example of how important or even a gift RUclips is to the world. Providing us all portals into the past. Thank YOU for posting & sharing this video! Will forever regret selling my 2 GS1000S Suzuki's 25 years ago...
Get another
1978 GS1000 - my first mind blowing superbike. Remember it like yesterday. Awesome upload.
The more videos I find of Wes Cooley's verbal presentations, the more I appreciate his congeniality & informative speech. He has a great way of making things understandable to the non-motorcyclist segments of the viewership, and could very well deserve to be called one of motorcycling's great ambassadors to the public. I just can't help but to admire the guy.
Fantastic vintage video. Really enjoyed it. Awesome bikes, awesome sounds, awesome times. Thank you.
I am glad to have you please.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Lawson, Spencer, Cooley...AWESOME old school footage! That camera is HUGE!
家にこのビデオある～
８耐で、アルダナ選手にサインしてもらった思い出が甦る
Wes, Freddie, Eddie and more...what an AWESOME video! Rekindles so many fantastic memories of such a great era. Thanks for posting!!
That was awesome. Thank you for that. Back in the day when I used to race. Get memories.
本当に神ライダーしか映ってない貴重な映像だね。しかもライディングを昔の８ｍｍで映してるって貴重でしょう。しかし、この７０－８０年代のスーパーバイクは今のモトＧＰとかと比べ物にならないぐらい見ていて面白いし、荒々しさがバイクらしい時代だったな。ローソンカラーとか涙出てくる懐かしさ
あなたが言ったことは正確です。いくつかの方法では、モーターサイクレーシングは昔の方が良かった
@@jryer1 Hi I'm glad to meet you^^.Welcome to goodies of Japanese motorycles racevideo^^.I ride a YAMAHA.Some upon times,I rode Harley Davidson motorcycles.Evolution motor,Twincam88,XR1200.
I rode a Ducati and BMW too.
Freddie Spencer, Eddie Lawson, Wes Cooley, legends of my childhood years.
Modded street bikes came a bit later to the UK. The Superstock class of the mid 80's was the UK version of this. Great memories of seeing Suzuki Katanas and then GPZ 900's dominating the big production class in the early-mid eighties.
Thanks for the trip back in time. Freddie was just a pup looking forward to being 500 World Champion.
Those bikes back then were always on the verge of being uncontrollable. The era of real melding of man and machine. There will always be something special about that time.
So cool seeing Freddie Spencer at 18!
Love the sound of those engines! Good times back in the day.
Spencer's Honda sure pulls outta that corner ! This is the "Golden Era" of road racing !
Where was Roberts that year?
As far as I know, KR never did ride SuperBikes. Might be wrong, though.@@dalekennelly2270
@@dalekennelly2270 riding 500's in GP.
Love the “on bike” commentary from the bikers, hilarious to think that back in the day we would have had no idea it was recorded after and added over the top with them pretending it wasn’t. Lol. Such a classic video. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed listening to Lawson and Spencer talk about their 500cc dreams from this perspective in time. Now world champion legends of motogp, both seem so green here.
すげーかっこいい！！！この頃のスーパーバイクのほうが今よりスーパーバイクの名にふさわしいわ。
gp500デビュー前のスペンサーやローソンの動画は初めて観た！中学の頃熱狂したなぁ。あの頃は月1の雑誌でしか情報が無くて動く画に飢えてたなぁ。
あの頃のレーサー達は、皆輝き、後に大成してますね～
美藤さんを含めこの場に居た日本人は数少なく貴重な話を聞けた内容は、後の世代に残さねばなりません。
古き、良き時代でした
Those guys were heroes to ride the scary beast bikes of that time at their limits when engines were too fast for the chassis and the brakes but they were good enough to do it. The rest of us occasionally probed the limits on the roads and promptly backed right off when things got shaky. Respect.
ローソン、スペンサー若い！
Dave Aldana, a very young Freddie Spencer, Wes Cooley, and Eddie Lawson. I watched all these guys back in the day. Mainly at Sears Point Raceway and Laguna Seca. The riders were very accessible back then.
great ol school video ,, bring back memories at Shannonville race way back in '83..... cheers
I used to have this on a VHS tape back in the 80's, watched it until the tracking adjustment was at its stop, and then kept on watching it! Back then, any type of moto video was hard to come by. I've been a fan and participant of all motorcycle racing since the 1970's, especially motocross and roadracing. This is one of my all time favorites. Haven't seen this in 20 years or more and still, I know all of the dialogue.
Love the tank mounted camera
Yes the 70s were a cool time. A lot happened in those 10 fast years. My Kaw Z1 was fast and loud too.
本当の意味でバイクの性能を120パーセント引き出せる人たちのレースですね！
か・な・りかっこいいね
自分が単車好きになったのはこのころかな
Great footage. Not sure the on-bike audio wasn’t added later tho. Brilliant clip. Thanks.
thanks Starr been there so many times & this is just plain FANTASTIC to see LS way back when little Freddie at 18 the bikes what can one say & carburetors to boot!
Fantastic! An 'on-board' interview during the race with Wes!
The contrast between superbike then and now is stark but fascinating. I race 600cc supersports and I don't know if I could ever get up to pace on one of these, even with modern tires. The advances in suspension, tire, and frame technology have made it... I hesitate to say "easier" to ride fast, but definitely less frightening when searching for the limits. The confidence modern bikes offer will spoil you. I would really like to build a bike for AHRMA one day and experience a bit of what this was like.
Hey thanks! I'll look into that. Appreciate the tip!
I started on a 600cc bike. One of the EFI ones. Got rid of it and now have a 79 GS1000 and a 89 FJ1200. Honestly, I feel like the bigger bikes have a lot more balls, even though they are roughly in the same range for horse power.
The older motor have a less square bore vs stroke so you feel the torque as grunt... makes its power more in the mid range as opposed to needing to be revved like an over square design.
Pops Yoshimura was a name I remember from the big 4 cyl super bikes. Me and my Yamaha RD 400 riding like an old lady.
Unbelievable how far we've come in 40 years. I miss these big old bruisers from my childhood, what a beautiful time in motorcycling history.
あぁあぁあぁー！ なつかっしゃー！！！
VHSでテープが擦り切れるほど毎日毎日みてました！
Blu-rayで再販してくれないかな？
なんか…涙出てきた…
Was there in 1981 watching the same guys racing, what a great time!
I was there in 82, and each year for the next ten. And Sears Point, then Daytona most years from 83 until 89. Nothing against today's racers, as I can't hold a candle to any of them. But these were the glory days, both in the AMA classes and the GP circuit.
I'm too young to have lived through these times, but something made me stay to watch the whole thing. I ride a '73 CB350 with high-pipes.
My first bike was a 72 CB350. I wish I still had that bike. Modded several times, laid down shocks, exhaust, a 3" wide rear Aluminum rim running a 140/90 18, homemade rear sets, flipped the shifter around for GP shift. Knee was on the ground in every corner (wish I could do that now on my superduke!). It finally blew up (for the last time) at Riverside raceway during the last event they had at the track.
You stayed to watch it cause you are a biker. Congratulations.
What motorcycle racing careers are about to bloom. It takes me back to my short lived novice rr career on the east coast here at a younger age. An unfortunate street accident sidelined everything. The competition back then in it's infancy stage. Freddie Spencer, Wes Cooley, David Emde, Eddie Lawson, David Aldana, and John Benntencourt from Yoshimura East wow. The good old daze.
these were the days,the likes of Freddie Spencer,Wes Cooley,Eddie Lawson and others.Fantastic!
Awesomw video, fantastic footage! The quality of camera takes are incredible. Thanks for posting this great video!
The sound of these inline 4 cylinder bikes is just intoxicating...awesome!
40年が経った┄。俺も21だった。ウェス·クーリーもエディ·ローソンもファスト·フレディもみんな憧れだった。その後鮫洲試験場で限定解除してZ1R カーカー集合マフラーで都内をぶっ飛ばしていた。楽しかった。
I loved the big 4cyl Kawasakis of this era.
Me too, spent every penny I had making my Z650 go like stink and handle well.
@@satanssurfer5965. One of my mates had a Z650, with a reg that read
TNT 1T.
@@NOOne-im5vg that's so cool, probably worth a few quid nowadays
@@satanssurfer5965 Absolutely.
Great video. It’s amazing to see how riding style has evolved over the years. These guys ride ‘twisted’ when they hang off compared to today’s elbow down action!
What a great vintage race video, thank you for posting... @Z1100Rtaka It was Fast Freddie Spencer, after watching him in Super Bike races, that made me buy my new then 1982 Honda CB 900 F/c. After installing second stage cams, Kerker 4 into 1 and Mikuni smooth-bore carbs on it, mine was sounding just like his....LOL! Cheers!
ualdrivr+ I bought a 1980 silver 750F because the 900F was European only. 4 months later they released the 900F to the U.S. market. Damn! Had to have it. The 900F was the best handling street bike I ever owned. Over the next 25 years, I owned 3 more silver 750S and 2 more silver 900s. Mine were all stock except for superbike handlebars on the 750s. The Suzuki 1000 and the Kawasaki 1000 were faster but the Hondas were much better handling. I miss those days!
I bought a Yamaha RD400 Daytona Special new in 1979 and was hooked on the two strokes. But damn the new (back then) Hondas were beautiful machines. Didn't they make an CB1100F as well? Ahh, The good old days. Still one of the best looking bikes around.
Calvin Edmonson+ I never got an RD 400 but rode my friends many times. Best 2 stroke street bike ever. Great torque compared to my RD350. He could wheelie that 400 easily for a half mile or more, but then again he could wheelie anything. The first day I had my new 900F I let him ride it and he rode it for 15 feet and pulled it into a wheelie and wheelied it out of sight turning the dogleg corner like it was nothing. At first I wanted to kill him, but then I just had to admire his skill. He later piloted F-14s in the Air Force.
ualdrivr o1
Thank you Peter Starr for capturing these races for us
Check out Take it to the limits. Better than On any sunday.
Camera on the fueltank? It's a complete studio compare it with nowadays.
But I love those gone days of real racing.
Wow. WOW!! Pulling a wheelie, and shifting the bike's position/posture while the front tire is still in the air, What Wonderful riders......
Very cool! I had this video on VHS Tape in the early eighties :-) Nice to see it again !!!
Some guy sauntered up to me at the infield fence at Daytona in 1983 (I think). I mentioned how I admired the riders but thought they were nuts. He laughed and asked me if I thought he was nuts. I said, "oh, so you're a rider?' "Why aren't you out there". He lowers his T-shirt and shows me a fresh shoulder scar. We josh around and later on he tells me he is David Emde. I remembered his Dad, Don, who won the Daytona 200 about 13 years earlier. David was not racing because of his injury and was just taking in the scene. Just a regular guy.
Dude, this is awesome! Many thanks. I lived in central Ca during the 70s and 80s and attended many of these races.
And then 1980 came around, and Eddie "awesome" Lawson never looked back. 😊
What a racer, what a man!
The 100 lb hay bales with lots of big tires backing them up as one goes through the corkscrew is a nice touch. Helps assist your stop.
Big difference from today's track. Very cool to see how it was even after seeing so many changes in recent years to accomodate the international series and Indy cars. The track in the video cuts out the whole current infield, coming out of turn 2 straight across to turn 5. Look how the whole track has no fences. Now the whole track has catch fence around it. Look how there is no fence along the front straight when they show the straight. You can see how you used to be able to stand right next to the track on drivers left as they come up the hill pulling wheelies to the corkscrew. Now it is all catch fence. The fence where the corner marshalls stand at the corkscrew is probably the same fence today. Funny how they have to breathe the throttle so much into turn 1. Spencer, Lawson so young.
It was probably cutting edge at the time but I like how these motorcycles look simple and raw by today standard, especially from a racing perspective. There are no fairing hiding the engine, it's all about mechanical grip and brute force. I wouldn't be able to ride any of these and I know suspensions, chassis and tires have gone a long way since then but I'm not into fully faired sports bike. I'm glad manufacturers acknowledged that and that "naked bikes" are so popular nowadays but there are not many racing series that include these and that's a shame.
17:54 "I'm coming out of turn nine, I'll pull a wheelie for ya"
absolute legend
このビデオ、自分がレースしてた頃、HRCのパーツを扱ってた貝取のバイク屋さんでよく流れてた。
懐かしい。
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Great old days of road bike racing. 👍🏻 Spencer, Lawson when they were boys! Awesome stuff.
I love this video!!!
That GoPro camera gen 1 was awesome
I can remember seeing Eddie Lawson on these bikes for the first time in the UK at Brands Hatch....
Had one of those street GS1000E. Minor tuning took the power to 110hp. Back then Vegas roads were fair game all the time. Learned how to paint lines like Freddie, would leave them in Red Rock Canyon, and The Valley of Fire.
I’ve owned a few of those same bikes back in the day. Steel frames steel tanks and and EASY 1/4 burnout from a redlight without using the front break or a turbo. Lol. Tires was slim and hard. Bikes Heavy as hell. Dangerous to ride. But something I couldn’t live without. Couldn’t buy many hot rod parts like you can today. Ignition advance back then was no more then drilling out the holes in the timing plate enough to turn it a bit one way or another. Shaving weight wasn’t just buying carbon fiber wheels. It was removing the center stand and chain guard. lol. Where I lived and raced the Only place you could get good race fuel was to know someone at the small local airport. If you was fast back then it was because you worked for it. Not because you bought a few bolt on parts. I miss the Good old days.
Man do you know what my love and passion for motorcycles has grown so much just by watching this masterpiece
So cool to see this! I had no idea there was ever a different layout to Laguna Seca
Cooley, Lawson and Fest Freddie ! Absolute legends!!!!
Catch's the times. Same year as Easy Rider...I first went to Laguna Seca in 1967. A neighbor raced a Porsche Speedster and we would drive it from Los Altos to Laguna over highway 17....saw some Can Am races.
It was the times full of a dream and hope.
I want to go to Laguna Seca sometime.
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These guys were absolutely insane. Takes balls to ride those bikes like that
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And some of them did go on to be 500cc world champions, great video.
As a footnote, Wes Cooley indeed went on to have a career in the medical profession, after retiring from professional racing.
that corkscrew is insane, was riding pillion on the big Z in 4th absolutely wide open and hunkered down and that noise just before going in to 5th, ear splitting scream
Awesome video.. I felt instantly connected to the riders. Behaves like a person from the neighbourhood... Compared to moral and ethical behaviour today, which makes the distance between the racing world, and us normal people, (their wallet in essence.) ,feel so far away. Like its royalties or something..
This reminds of, when racing was family entertainment, perhaps mostly for the boys, but still. I grew up watching DTM, F1 and Superbike, making popcorn and all, with my dad and brother
I've owned a 1980 GS1000s (Cooley replica) since 1991. Love it.
Great video, but all of these '70's roadraces looked like they were filmed in the silent era.
Man, when I started watching, I guessed this was made about when I was in high school. I was right, 1979. I knew all these guys only from reading about them in my Cycle magazine subscription. I still have all those magazines! I never would have been able to see this if not for RUclips. It’s amazing how he describes the track as he rides the bike at those speeds with a 16mm camera on the tank, and listen to those snarly engines!
No sun shade in the pits, no uniforms, no phones.....Still those Superbikes of those times still have the horsepower to make angels fear to fly.
Amazing... Enjoy old times. Thanks
Great video, looking back at the good old days!! :-)
The camera mounted to the back was the size of a small human. Maybe they should have put hobbit sized cameramen facing backwards. How technology has changed. Gopros ect.
These guys truly were brave, the technology back then was intimidating back then compared to today.
They may have been cutting edge at the time but even with "slicks" rubber compound has changes so much since then.
I think these guys had more balls than the Moto GP era of 500cc two strokes, because the tech on the 500's was way advanced from this 70's era.
Great video, very insightful. Anybody racing motorbikes deserves respect as a sportsman.
No roll cages, high sides, lowsides drifting into and out of corners.
Two wheels 🤙
What a great era. Legendary riders and competition. 1979, When TZ 250's ruled the world.
I watched this video tons of times, just hearing these bikes scream is a amazing.... nothing sounds like these old bikes
Ahhh racers back in the all or nothing days ..guts or glory ..i love it...old is gold people
I went to Suzuki Roadrace school, '93
David Aldana was the instructor. So I got to rock with him for a day on a racetrack.
Everybody was on the track including him and I got the bright idea to F&(% with him.
I was gonna pass him.. It was a tight section of the track, right to left. He left a little door open to the left and I tried to slip in there.
He closed it so fast I almost lost my nose.
If you're gonna mess with a master, better know what your doing.
1979 damn soo different
No rossi
No tight turn 2 or 3
No stabilizer
No aero
Insane speeds
Different era
Rossi was born that year! 🙂
21 years later he won his first GP500 victory at Donington Park/British GP.
And now he is the old man on the grid, with the legend-status. 😊
Time flies... 🙄
The good old days LOL!!!...I spent so much money trying to get my Z1 and GS 1000S...to handle its a joke ...NOW I ride a SUPERMOTO that handles, can jump speed bumps at 80mph has brembos and goes like a rocket..to be 63 years young and still thrashing around the world >>>>YAHOO!!!
Fantastic video thanks for sharing
What a fantastic video, fun to see those guys at such a young age :)